reflink 0.2.2

Python reflink wraps around platform specific reflink implementations

Python reflink

Python wrapper around the reflink system calls. Note: Python is implementing this natively upstream, cfr. https://bugs.python.org/issue37157.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://reflink.readthedocs.io.

• Documentation for master branch: https://rubdos.gitlab.io/pyreflink/docs

Features

• Btrfs, XFS, OCFS2 reflink support. Btrfs is tested the most.

• Apple macOS APFS clonefile support. Little testing, be careful. It might eat data.

• A convenience method that checks support for reflinks within a specific directory.

Installation

This library is available on pypi:

pip install reflink

Quick start example

To use Python reflink in a project:

from reflink import reflink
# Reflink copy 'large_file.img' to 'copy_of_file.img'
reflink("large_file.img", "copy_of_file.img")

Help wanted

Someone to implement a Windows/ReFS implementation

Support

Support on the GitLab repository, feel free to file an issue.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.2.0 (2018-03-09)

New features:

• APFS/Darwin support

• Filenames outside ascii are supported (thank you, Kriskras99)

Bug fixes:

• Building on newer glibc (thank you, Frankie Dintino)

• Better error handling for ENOENT

Other changes:

• Continuous integration for Windows (AppVeyor), integrated in the GitLab pipeline

0.1.0 (2017-07-27)

• First release on PyPI.